Just as the first three rules of real estate are location, location, location (at least they were before the housing bubble burst), the first three rules of safe computing are backup, backup, backup.
The fourth rule is installing and updating an antivirus program. We can't help you if you're behind in your mortgage payments, but I can help you safeguard your most precious files.
PC Backup is an inexpensive, rock-solid program that requires little of your time, and can save the files you value the most: financial, photos, documents, bank statements that you've downloaded -- just about any file that can't be replaced when (not if) your harddrive decides it's had enough of your abuse.
Hard drives, even the newest ones, which can hold zillions of files, seem to crash moments before you were planning to back up your hard drive. Speaking from experience, I can tell you that next to getting caught by a red light camera, one of the worst non-violent things that you can experience is losing everything to a hard drive crash.
Trying to retrieve your data is expensive and often fruitless. Which is why PC Backup could be your best friend. It's easy to set up and use. You choose which files you want to back up and where you want them backed up: external hard drive, USB drive, secure digital card -- in short, anything that you can plug into or attach to your PC.
If you want to back up files every two minutes, go for it. Or you can schedule a daily backup, hourly or anything in between.
After my initial backup, I configured the program to back up files as they're modified. Each time I saved this column to my hard drive, it was automatically backed up to an external hard drive. It doesn't get much...

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